The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Volume Two arrives on DVD on December 18 in a nine-disc boxed set (
see the original announcement here.) Here's a look at what's on the fourth disc.
Oganga: The Giver and Taker of Life (1:28:01) Having escaped the trenches of the Western Front for adventure in Africa, Indy faces a new unseen enemy: the diseases of the untamed jungle. Jones is on a vital assignment transporting weapons across the Belgian Congo, and comes across a disease-ravaged village with only one small child as its survivor. The presence of the child endangers the mission -- to bring him along risks exposing the unit to disease, but to leave him behind surely marks him for death. The difficult decision leaves Indy fighting his conscience, his sense of duty, and his commanding officer.
Bogged down by the hopelessness and turmoil that surrounds him, and feverish with disease, Indy reaches his lowest point. Hope appears in the presence of Albert Schweitzer, a profoundly inspiring and committed doctor, philosopher and musician. Indy spends time at Schweitzer's jungle hospital, where he finds his faith in humanity restored and his outlook on life forever changed.
Oganga: The Giver and Taker of Life stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Indy and Ronny Coutteure as Remy. Guest stars include Bryan Pringle (Brazil) as Zachariah Sloat, Michel Duchaussoy (The Killing Game) as Major Boucher, Isaach de Bankole (Casino Royale, Ghost Dog) as Barthelmy, Emile Abossolo M'bo (Hitman) as Joseph, Isolde Barth as Helene Schweitzer, Yann Colette ( Prêt-à-Porter) as Colonel Pernod, and Freidrich Von Thun (Schindler's List) as Albert Schweitzer.
Production Credits: Director of Photography: David Tattersall; Editor: Louise Rubacky; Production Designer: Gavin Bocquet; Costume Designer: Charlotte Holdich; Music by Joel McNeely; Executive Producer: George Lucas; Produced by Rick McCallum; Written by Frank Darabont; Directed by Simon Wincer
Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life (0:29:47) In 1953, Albert Schweitzer won the Nobel Prize for peace, and magazines and newspaper articles were calling him "the greatest man in the world." He was one of the most unlikely candidates for such accolades -- having spent the majority of his life working as a doctor, tending to the poor in a remote corner of Africa. In addition to being a doctor, Schweitzer was a concert organist and a respected theologian, but it was for uncovering a simple philosophy that he won the Nobel Prize. He called his way of thinking and living "Reverence for Life."
Produced and written by David O'Dell.
Congo: A Curse of Riches (0:32:39) The Congo encompasses a million square miles of the richest land in Africa. Yet despite that wealth -- or perhaps because of it -- throughout their history the Congolese would nearly starve to death, economically and politically. Their vast riches would bring only suffering, corruption, and death. Produced and written by Karena O'Riordan.
Waging Peace: The Rise of Pacifism (0:26:02) As the 20th century approached, governments all over Europe were doing their best to win the deadly game of the arms race. But some of their subjects were beginning to fear that if the arms race led to a real war, there would be no victors. Modern weapons, argued the pacifists, had become too powerful, too destructive. If they were unleashed they might destroy Europe and roll back centuries of cultural, scientific and economic progress. Produced and written by Mark Page.